A friend has just signed up to FTTC, which i will also hopefully be doing sooner or later.
I understand that from BT and many others a seperate modem and router is supplied. Modem normally being something from Huawei if from BT and the router being a home hub (rebadged linksys thing i seem to recall, maybe wrongly).
This is going to be a pain for him and a even bigger pain for me.
Has anyone got any recommendations on replacing this with a single VDSL modem/router device???
Due to the amount of devices i have, and living in a 4 floor home (most devices being on the 3rd and 4th floor and the master socket being on the ground floor) and having everything hardwired at the moment i can forsee issues and me running up and down several flights of stairs everytime the home hub or modem has brain wind. Also wont be fun me having to run more cables from ground floor where master socket is should i ever add more gear on the fourth floor at the back of the house with the master socket at the front of the house.
Any all in one device available see i can shove it say on the second or third floor and run a single cable down to the master socket, rather than several LANs from the ground floor up and make use of my current network cabling?
I hope that made sense could draw a very rough diagram if needed........ Ultimately though question will still be any combined VDSL modem routers on the market for a decent price which anyone has tried with FTTC services???? Even if there is work arounds my experience of BT home hubs is they are poop so ill want to replace it regardless.
I understand that from BT and many others a seperate modem and router is supplied. Modem normally being something from Huawei if from BT and the router being a home hub (rebadged linksys thing i seem to recall, maybe wrongly).
This is going to be a pain for him and a even bigger pain for me.
Has anyone got any recommendations on replacing this with a single VDSL modem/router device???
Due to the amount of devices i have, and living in a 4 floor home (most devices being on the 3rd and 4th floor and the master socket being on the ground floor) and having everything hardwired at the moment i can forsee issues and me running up and down several flights of stairs everytime the home hub or modem has brain wind. Also wont be fun me having to run more cables from ground floor where master socket is should i ever add more gear on the fourth floor at the back of the house with the master socket at the front of the house.
Any all in one device available see i can shove it say on the second or third floor and run a single cable down to the master socket, rather than several LANs from the ground floor up and make use of my current network cabling?
I hope that made sense could draw a very rough diagram if needed........ Ultimately though question will still be any combined VDSL modem routers on the market for a decent price which anyone has tried with FTTC services???? Even if there is work arounds my experience of BT home hubs is they are poop so ill want to replace it regardless.